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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

PART TWO SEGUNDA PARTE<br />

Chapter 1 CAPÍTULO I<br />

It was the middle of the morning, and Winston had<br />

left the cubicle to go to the lavatory.<br />

A solitary figure was coming towards him from the<br />

other end of the long, brightly-lit corridor. It was the<br />

girl with dark hair. Four days had gone past since the<br />

evening when he had run into her outside the junkshop.<br />

As she came nearer he saw that her right arm<br />

was in a sling, not noticeable at a distance because it<br />

was of the same colour as her overalls. Probably she<br />

had crushed her hand while swinging round one of<br />

the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels<br />

were 'roughed in'. It was a common accident in the<br />

Fiction Department.<br />

They were perhaps four metres apart when the girl<br />

stumbled and fell almost flat on her face. A sharp cry<br />

of pain was wrung out of her. She must have fallen<br />

right on the injured arm. Winston stopped short. The<br />

girl had risen to her knees. Her face had turned a<br />

milky yellow colour against which her mouth stood<br />

out redder than ever. Her eyes were fixed on his,<br />

with an appealing expression that looked more like<br />

fear than pain.<br />

A curious emotion stirred in Winston's heart. In front<br />

of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in<br />

front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and<br />

perhaps with a broken bone. Already he had<br />

instinctively started forward to help her. In the<br />

moment when he had seen her fall on the bandaged<br />

arm, it had been as though he felt the pain in his own<br />

body.<br />

128<br />

A media mañana, Winston salió de su cabina para<br />

ir a los lavabos.<br />

Una figura solitaria avanzaba hacia él desde el otro<br />

extremo del largo pasillo brillantemente iluminado.<br />

Era la muchacha morena. Habían pasado cuatro<br />

días desde la tarde en que se la había encontrado<br />

cerca de la tienda. Al acercarse, vio Winston que la<br />

joven llevaba en cabestrillo el brazo derecho. De<br />

lejos no se había fijado en ello porque las vendas<br />

tenían el mismo color que el «mono».<br />

Probablemente, se habría aplastado la mano para<br />

hacer girar uno de los grandes calidoscopios donde<br />

se fabricaban los argumentos de las novelas. Era un<br />

accidente que ocurría con frecuencia en el<br />

Departamento de Novela.<br />

Estaban separados todavía por cuatro metros<br />

cuando la joven dio un traspié y se cayó de cara al<br />

suelo exhalando un grito de dolor. Por lo visto,<br />

había caído sobre el brazo herido. Winston se paró<br />

en seco. La muchacha logró ponerse de rodillas.<br />

Tenía la cara muy pálida y los labios, por contraste,<br />

más rojos que nunca. Clavó los ojos en Winston<br />

con una expresión desolada que más parecía de<br />

miedo que de dolor.<br />

Una curiosa emoción conmovió a Winston. Frente<br />

a él tenía a la enemiga que procuraba su muerte.<br />

Frente a él, también, había una criatura humana<br />

que sufría y que quizás se hubiera partido el hueso<br />

de la nariz. Se acercó a ella instintivamente, para<br />

ayudarla. Winston había sentido el dolor de ella en<br />

su propio cuerpo al verla caer con el brazo<br />

vendado.<br />

'You're hurt?' he said. — ¿Estás herida? — le dijo.<br />

'It's nothing. My arm. It'll be all right in a second.' — No es nada. El brazo. Estaré bien en seguida.

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